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House of Hunger

Alexis Henderson · Horror

40 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

dark academiagothic atmospherefound familycoming of age
gothicdark academia
🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus

#196 All Time

About this book

Wanted: A bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply... Marion Shaw is a child of the slums. She yearns to escape the city and its miseries but has no real hope -- until a strange advertisement catches her eye: someone is seeking a 'bloodmaid'. Marion applies for the position and days later finds herself at the notorious House of Hunger -- poised to enter a world that is dark, debauched and very dangerous. And there, at the centre of it all, is Countess Lisavet. Loved and feared in equal measure, she is both charismatic and seductive -- and she takes a special interest in Marion. But then bloodmaids begin to go missing, and Marion finds herself at the centre of a terrifying game of cat and mouse. She must learn the rules of her new home before it become her grave...

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